PLAN OF STUDIES

Students’ workload in ECTS (European Credits of the Master)

The Master has assigned in its Program of Studies (composed of 5 Modules) a workload of 60 ECTS . These workloads are distributed in the Master in a series of interrelated activities that enable students to develop the final Master’s Thesis. These activities are shown in the following table:

60 ECTS are equivalent to the student’s average workload that must be included between (25 x 60) = 1.500 hours and (30 x 60) = 1.800 work hours.

Teaching-learning course

Activities in classroom with physical presence of the professor (hours)

Guided activities (out of classroom) without physical presence of the professor(hours)

Work Total (hours)

Credits (ECTS)

Learning modules

726

613

1339

40

Final Master’s Thesis

0

450

450

15

Total

726

1063

1789

60

SUBJECT

ECTS

WORK HOURS

Module I: Planning, evaluation and management of rural development

Rural planning with ecological base: Development models

5

138

Evaluation design: Methods and tools

5

140

Management for rural-local development projects: Bases for competence

5

145

Planning in the public field: From knowledge to action

2

60

Participative and collaborative evaluation for entrepreneurship

2

60

Bases for competence in project management

3

60

Module II: Quantitative techniques for a sustainable development

Technologies for territory study: Remote sensing and GIS

3

82

Support systems for decision making

4

107

Uses of complex systems socially intelligent (SCSI) in rural development

2

50

Module III: Sustainable management of a territory and its biodiversity

Techniques and models for sustainable management and biodiversity conservation

4

112

Sustainable management of soil and water

4

75

Socioeconomic sustainability assessment

2

80

Natura network 2000. Concepts and evaluation of the state of nature conservation